REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
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Dec. loth, 1896.—This, the first meeting after the annual, was 
devoted to a pocket-box exhibition, which was remarkably well 
attended by members, and a number of interesting exhibits made. 
Some of these were as follows: — Specimens bred during 1896.—Mr. 
Bacot exhibited numerous species which he had bred during 1896, 
including two broods of Oryyia yonostiyma, from Tonbridge; Taenio- 
campa miniusa, from the New Forest; Choerocampa elpenor, from Pon¬ 
der’s End; Endromus versicolor, from bought pupae ; Catocala sponsa, 
from the New Forest; Leiocampct dictaea, from ova received from Mr. 
Goymour; Clisiocampa eastrensis, from ova received from Mr. Whittle ; 
Smerintlms ocellatus-populi hybrid; Nutodonta carmelita, from ova 
received from Mr. J. A. Clark; Dianthoecia capsincola and Acronicta 
leporina, from the New Forest, etc., etc. Mr. May exhibited Acherontia 
atropos, bred from larva, from Bampton, in Oxfordshire ; Orthosia 
suspecta, taken at sugar at New Park, near Brockenhurst, in June of 
this year; Qramtnesia triyrammica ab. hilinea, from the New Forest, in 
June of this year ; besides many other interesting species, captured or 
bred during 1896. Local, forms of Cohnonympha tiphon, etc. — Mr. 
Routledge exhibited Coenonytnpha tiphon, from Carlisle, Morpeth, 
Rannoch, Orkney, Liverpool and Bantry Bay. Hepialides. — Mr. 
Routledge also exhibited Hepialus humuli, from Carlisle, Orkney and 
Shetland; II. sylvinus, from Carlisle; II. relied a, from Carlisle and 
Shetland; and abs. yallicus and ramus, from Carlisle. British 
Coleoptera. — Mr. Sauze exhibited thirty-three species of British 
Longicorn beetles. Aberrations of Aglais urtic^e. — Mr. Nicholson 
exhibited a series of Aylais nrticae, all, except 5 from Scotland, having been 
bred or caught by himself. One of the specimens was nearly identical 
with var. ichnusa. Also a malformed specimen of Pyrameis cardui, 
with a sketch of hind-wings, showing a disarrangement of the wing- 
rays on the left hind-wing ; and a specimen having an extra white 
spot on the tawny part of the fore-wing, just below the series of white 
apical spots. The position of this spot is identical with that of the 
white spot frequently found in the red band of P. atalanta. The 
genus Hypsipetes.— Mr. Tutt exhibited his two cabinet drawers con¬ 
taining his series of the three British species — Ilypsiprtes sordid ata, 
trifasciata and ruherata. These insects have been collected from widely 
different localities, and exhibit considerable extremes of variation. 
Jan. 5th, 1897.— Dwarf Calymnia trapezina.— Mr. Oldham: 8 
dwarf Calymnia trapezina, taken in Epping Forest in 1895-96, to 
show that the species is getting small by degrees in the locality ; also 
Cosmia affinis, and 1 dwarf Scopelosoma satellitia, from Woodford ; and 1 
Scotosia certata, from Cambridgeshire. Breeding Acherontia atropos. 
— Mr. Burrows : a number of bred Acherontia atropos, including one 
from Rainham, in 1898, which had the inner band distinctly paler on 
the left hind-wing, lie also read the following notes on his rearing 
